The Arizona sentinel., 1887-11-19
TOMMY'S SCHOOL.
How and Why He Changed His Mind, and
 What Came of It.

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 "Humph! I ain't agoin' to study much if school does begin Monday, said Tommy Jenkins at the end of his long vacation; "Pm goin' to have pea nuts all shelled. and eat lem when teacher isn't lookin', and I'm goin' to do lots O things to make the other boys laugh, and I'm goin' to act so teacher Il have to send me home. then l won't have to go to school any more; chee-hee, won't that be funp' and a pair of boyish heels went up into the air as Tommy threw himself back on the sofa and chuckled at what he thought very smart speech.
 Susie, who was eight years old, two years younger than Tommy, looked a little shocked at first, but when Tom my laughed so gaily she laughed, too, then she said:
 ''Yes, but what will mamma say to such things, and papa? Oh, papa Il be dreadful sober and say: My little sonr in that way that always makes me cry right out when he says: My little daughter!"'
 "Oh, mamma will be kinder sorry at first" said Tommy, blandly, "but she will get over it pretty soon, and as to papa, oh, I'd make it all right with papa when I told him how feller hates to study" and Tommy thrust his thumbs into the armhOles of his blouse and tried to whistle.
 Fortunately, mamma was in the hall, and inst about to enter the room when Tommy began his smart remarks, and so heard every word the children said. She went quickly back upstairs, and neither Tommy nor Susie suspected she had heard a word.
 But just as their mother expected would be the case, when bedtime was approaching that night Tommy began asking for a story. and Susie put down her dolly to help Tommy tease for what they both liked so much, one of their mammals nice stories. Papa was over by the table reading, but his face was behind the paper, and the children knew the sound of mammals voice would not disturb him at all
 So after Tommy had seated himself on an ottoman with his hands in his mammals lap, and Susie was nestled close beside her, mamma began:
 ''Once upon time there was a fine looking young man who was very un- fortunate, and very much to be pitied. He had good manners, and also had the appearance of having been well brought up, but the trouble was. he was not faithful in any thing. When he first went into town and tried to find work, he would generally succeed in getting some thing to do in a store perhaps, and for little while he would seem to do very well, but It was never long before those who had employed him would find that he was not to be trusted, so he would be obliged to leave and try to find some other place or em- ployment
 ''The time would come when every one in the town would know all about him, and he would have to go some where else and begin all over again to try finding work by which to feed him. self. This was not at all happy life to lead, for of course he had no settled home, no friends in particular, and but very little money, some times not enough to buy things he really needed.
 "Besides all this there was no kind of business he could engage in except the very simplest, because he had never learned how to do the things which bring in money to any amount, and are what we call profitable. Don't you think he must have felt very badly when he thought of his boyhood and his comfortable home and kind pa rents?'
 Ibid he ever have nice home and good parents?" asked Tommy.
 Certainly, just as nice home as you have, and just as kind parents"
 "Then why didn't they teach him things, and send him to school?" asked Tommy, his great blue eyes wide open.
 "Oh, they did," said mamma. "He was always carefully dressed in the neatest clothes, provided with the best of food, and watched over as tenderly as you are through his boyish years. and every day he was sent with his little sister to one of the finest schools"
 "Then why didn't he learn and grow up to be faithful young man, and have a home and some money, and lots of friends?" asked interested Tom my.
 "Well. that is g very sad thing to